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... season is drawing to a close. A rich histrionic season may be anticipated to commence in September. The national theatre—as Drury Lane is not improperly called—opens wilt a new drama, from the pen of Mr. Andrew Halliday, founded on Sir Walter Scott's great ...
... nine hundred now. They all live at Haffron•hill, except a batch of about forty, who lodge at a house in Elhort's-pedeas, Drury-lane. Organ-grinding le nothing like what it used to be. Oh, yes, the organs are better—there's no mistake about that—but the ...
... too, to the Gallery of Illustration, where she had a taste of Reeds Entire. 'then she's heard Mims Mori man singing at the Drury Lane Opera, and Mister Four (who was better than any one) the celebrated termer. She intends to stop in town for the final die ...
... (1660-1746) mae seven hundred pounds by one play. In the Isabella of the latter author, Mrs. Siddons made her dibal at Drury Lane in 1782. Dryden does not seem to have made so much by his plays ; and thought himself lucky if one brought him one hundred ...
... was allowed to continue unchecked. The popular sympathy was shown by the comparative emptiness of the theatres. Only in Drury Lane Theatre, the Olympic, and the Gaiety were what is known in theatrical circles as Saturday night audiences to be seen. In ...
... Keighley, ' 1P.:36 from Rochdale, and r 250 from Mr. F. R. Chattorten, being the gross proceeds of a benefit performance at Drury.lane Theatre. *Among other gifts those of a ;minting worth 100 guineas from Yvon, he French artist and a marble medallion bast ...
... the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly notto Bob Low(e). ExTRENEs MEET —Jndy was surprised, during a recent visit to Drury-lane, to notice that, during the performance of the pantomime, whilst the pit was convulsed with laughter, the upper portion ...
... refused to give any explanation stout his antecedents but it was soon ascertained that he was the son of a machinest in Drury-lane Theatre, and had for some months been out of employment. He was examined in the first instance before the Privy Council ...
... theatres last night was the test bow far the gas supply h.d been diminished and the luxury of the pu'Aie curt tile i. At Drury -lane Theatre the performances proceeded as usual, and the interior was only a slight degree les. brilliant than ordinary. On ...
... do. There is Patti as Desdemona at Covent Garden, and there is the bewitching Jima di Ilifurska as Margaret of Valois at Drury Lane; there is Dumas's Diana de Lys at the Princess's, and The Wandering Jew at the Adelphi. But Logy Tompkins is going to give ...
... plaints which are made respecting the price of meat. London has been truly called a world of contrasts- Who has not heard of Drury-lane ? The very mention of the word is suggestive of a rosgmficent theatre, upon whose boards have appeared some of the most ...
... pasture, extending westward from the comune high waye that leadeth from the Stronde to St. Giles-in-the - Eyelike (now Drury-lane), almost to the present St. Martin's-lane. Queen Elizabeth's trusty Secretary of State, Sir William Cecil, lived in a house ...